Jointly invested by China Telecom, Lucent Technologies ( China ) Co., Ltd., and China Telecom Corporation Limited, Guoxin Lucent Technologies Network Technologies Co., Ltd. (Guoxin Lucent) was founded in Beijing on April 12th 1999. Mainly producing communication network management software, Guoxin Lucent is by far of the largest scale of its kind in China . The company, with a total investment of US$29.8 million and a registered capital of US$12 million, is registered in Pudong New Area of Shanghai. Specialized in the development, production and sale of new advanced communication network management technologies, and network management application software, system integration, network planning and the provision of technical consultation services, Guoxin Lucent is committed to improving the efficiency of network operation in China to a high level. Guoxin Lucent has strictly adopted the software developing process invented by Bell Labs to ensure the quality and achieved the certificate of ISO 9001 in July 2000. Hi-tech corporation of Shanghai certification in December 2000 and passed the assessment of CMM level 3 in February 2004. At present, there are all-together about 200 employees in the company, among whom 90 percent own the bachelor degree and above. Meanwhile a lot of Masters and Doctors have made up half of the staff. The company, with the sophisticated technologies from Lucent Technologies and the promising market in China , strives to provide the products for the management of the various telecom networks to meet the great demand when China 's telecom sector is going to be open in the future. Aiming to be the first class R&D center in the world, Guoxin Lucent is committed to investing more in the fields of basic research and software development. Guoxin Lucent will strive to tap overseas markets as a global software corporation.